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Constitutions and the Political Agency of Women: A Cross-Country StudySiobhan Austen, Astghik Mavisakalyan
Gender in Constitutional Law is a comprehensive three-volume collection of formative and influential scholarship in a dynamic area of legal development and social change. Compiling theoretical, empirical, and practical analyses from leading scholars, judges, and nongovernmental organizations around the world, these volumes... Read article1 March 2018Books and Book ChaptersRead More

Small Business Enterprise Models of EmploymentErrol Cocks, Stian Thoresen, Robert Jackson, Allyson Thomson
Adults with disabilities are substantially disadvantaged, economically and socially. Ample national and international comparative data indicate low labour force participation rates (just over 50%) and double the unemployment rates for persons without disabilities. This report examines an emerging small business employment model that... Read article15 February 2018FeatureRead More

BCEC Newsletter Edition #4 January 2018
As 2017 came to an end, we had many reasons to celebrate. Last year was the Centre’s most successful yet, as evidenced by a suite of award wins for our research activities and the impact they have had. My warmest congratulations to Rebecca Cassells,... Read article6 February 2018Corporate PublicationsRead More

Talking in the Present, Caring for the Future: Language and EnvironmentAstghik Mavisakalyan, Yashar Tarverdi, Clas Weber
This paper identifies a new source that explains environmental behaviour: the presence of future tense marking in language. We predict that languages that grammatically mark the future affect speakers’ intertemporal preferences and thereby reduce their willingness to address environmental problems.... Read article2 February 2018Journal ArticlesRead More

Oil and Women: A Re-examinationAstghik Mavisakalyan, Yashar Tarverdi
In a seminal article, Ross (2008) reports a negative correlation between oil production and women’s representation in the labour force and politics across countries. This article re-examines these relationships exploiting variations in oil endowments to address endogeneity concerns. We confirm... Read article31 January 2018Journal ArticlesRead More

BCEC Quarterly Economic Commentary – December 2017Rebecca Cassells, Alan Duncan, Daniel Kiely
This is the first of Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre’s Western Australia Quarterly Economic Commentary analysing the most recent data on economic and social indicators for WA. Key findings from this edition include: Mixed signals in 2017 make ‘cautious optimism’ the New... Read article18 December 2017Quarterly Economic Commentary | Economic CommentaryRead More

BCEC Monthly Labour Market Update – Special Edition October 2017Alan Duncan, Alan Langford, Rebecca Cassells, Yashar Tarverdi
This special edition BCEC MLMU has been released to examine the impact of the major population re-benchmarking of the ABS Labour Force Survey. Every five years the ABS uses new information gathered from the Census to update its labour force... Read article11 December 2017Monthly Labour Market Updates | Economic CommentaryRead More

Returns to language skills in transition economiesAstghik Mavisakalyan
In many transition countries, the collapse of communism ushered in language reforms to adapt to the newfound independence from the Soviet Union and openness to the rest of the world. Such reforms may have implications for individuals’ economic opportunities, since... Read article1 December 2017Journal ArticlesRead More

The Price is Right?Alan Duncan, Kenneth Leong, Rachel Ong ViforJ, Silvia Salazar, Chris Twomey
The Western Australian economy has experienced something of a roller-coaster ride over the last decade. Unprecedented economic growth over the course of the resources boom has been followed by a post-boom period during which activity has cooled. Despite a reduction in demand in... Read article1 December 2017Focus on WARead More

BCEC Newsletter Edition #3 September 2017
This third edition of the tri-annual BCEC newsletter reports on a very active and successful period during the 2017 calendar year, with BCEC undertaking and delivering a number of research initiatives that have been influential in informing and shaping policy and debate on key... Read article27 November 2017Corporate PublicationsRead More

A regional model of endogenous growth without scale assumptionsSteven Bond-Smith, Philip McCann, Les Oxley
In this paper we model growth using a scale-neutral approach to innovation allowing differences between regions to emerge due to regional mechanisms. In this model, agglomeration is growth enhancing as the scale effect for innovation arises from greater access to... Read article21 November 2017Journal ArticlesRead More